Re: Crosscompile NetBSD-6 Beta on Ubuntu 10.04 (using build.sh)

[John Boyd <jboyd79%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:33 AM, John Boyd <jboyd79%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Crosscompile NetBSD on Ubuntu 10.04
>
> Here is what I did to crosscompile NetBSD-6 Beta on
> Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Note that I did all of this in my home
> directory and not as root or superuser.
>
> Download source/sets from here : http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-
> daily/netbsd-6
> Just follow the links.
>
> I downloaded and extracted the source sets
> using the following command(s):
>
>        $ for file in *.tgz
>        > do
>        >  tar -xpzf $file
>        > done
>
> This creates the following folders:
> usr/src
> usr/xsrc
>
> Then:
>
>        $ cd usr/src
>        $ mkdir -p obj
>        $ HOST_SH=/bin/bash
>        $ export HOST_SH
>
> Finally:
>
>        ./build.sh -U -O ./obj -x -m amd64 release iso-image
>
> You will find your iso image in usr/src/obj/releasedir/iso
>
> Warning: The source sets that I downloaded required that I
> manually set
> usr/xsrc/external/mit/xorg-server/dist/hw/xfree86/loader/sdksyms.sh
> executable (this is a bug). In the nautilus file manager I simply right
> clicked
> ,went to properties > permissions
> and clicked the "allow executing file as program" checkbox.
> After much googling I found this that relates to this issue
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2012/03/26/msg019656.html
> Thanks to Michael L. Riechers for the above solution.
> Hopefully updated sets would not have this issue.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> John